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I had to treat one of my clown fish for parasites that sounds a lot like your discription.

If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease."Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony CalfoFishless CycleCycling with FishMarine Aquarium Info [URL="http://saltwater.aquaticcommunity.com/"]

They are more noticable on the fins and that is where they are the most tolerable. If its ich it will move to the rest of the fish very quickly. It cant be treated effectively in the display tank. Dont believe any of the ads for so called reef safe ich treatment. If in wont harm a coral then it wont harm ich either.
Remove the infected fish to a qt and treat with cupramine immediatly. Get a seachem cu test kit and follow the directions for cuprmaine to the letter.

Man i knew this would bite me in the butt. i just set up a 10G QT yesterday for my 55Fowlr. what should i do ? i dont want to throw the little guy in just fresh SW with a HOB fudge. any suggestions? i cant dose his current tank becuse of the coral.im gonna mix up his food every feeding, for flake to brine/sprugila(spelling?), to mysis for the last feeding.

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Drip acclimate him to the new qt. If you got the route of using cu just keep in mind that the qt tank and all items in it are strictly off limits to inverts. If its ick you gotta get him out of the dt asap. Once they drop off him they will just be there waiting to happen again.

Do you have any removale media from the tank he was in? It is best to not have any porous material in a qt as it will absorb any meds needed and make dosing difficult. The way to run a qt isto syphon any detritu daily and do small water changes to avoid ammo. Use prime at a elevated dose to detox any ammo as well.

The only thing that I have been doing differently is to use water form the DT to set-up and complete water changes in the QT tank. That helps the accimation process be less stressfull when moving fish into the DT tank, plus it will help to reuse at least some of the old water from the DT tank

Just remember to provide a lot of hiding spots for the fish while in QT and no really bright lights

If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease."Not using a quarantine tank is like playing Russian roulette. Nobody wins the game, some people just get to play longer than others." - Anthony CalfoFishless CycleCycling with FishMarine Aquarium Info [URL="http://saltwater.aquaticcommunity.com/"]

so i went to 2 SW LFS and 2 petstores none of them had cuprmine, so i had to go with kordons red-ich -its a blue med. so far the clown is doing good in the QT been 1 day no -the signs of teh spots are going away or getting fewer. the spots did spread to the body.